AOL NEWS– Doctors hope further studies of salvia, a powerful hallucinogen that is
sometimes smoked by recreational users, will unlock treatments for a
variety of neurological disorders including Alzheimer’s disease and illnesses that cause chronic pain.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins Hospital
recently completed a study that examined the effects of salvia or
salvinorin A, on humans. “It is unlike anything that exists,” Dr.
Matthew Johnson, lead study researcher, psychologist and assistant professor of psychiatry at John Hopkins University, told AOL Health.
Johnson believes that gaining information about how salvia affects the brain could lead to medical advances and the creation of new drugs to treat a variety of illnesses and conditions that affect the brain.
Salvia divinorum is the active ingredient in salvia, which resembles marijuana and, according to researchers, is the most powerful hallucinogen in nature. This study, which appears online in Drug and Alcohol Dependence, is the first controlled trial to be conducted on humans.
The study participants were two men and two women who had previous
experience with hallucinogens. The volunteers smoked the drug in 20
sessions over the course of two or three months.
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